In the latter end of the former, God was in a way of promising mercy to his people, that those that were not his people should be his people, and those that had not received mercy should receive mercy. Now he calleth upon all whose hearts were with God, to speak to one another of this great favour of God to his people, fo• their mutual encouragement, and for the praise of his Name. As if he should say, Well, you have been under dreadful threats of God, your sins have called for dreadful things; but my grace is free, and it is rich & powerful, therefore you that were not my people, and have deserved to be for ever cast off from being my people, you that had not obtained mercy shall obtain mercy; Say to your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah, that is, O you that are godly, speak one to another, and tel• one another, for the quickening of one another's hearts; of this great favour of God of his free grace, Oh say, Ammi, Ammi, the people of God, Ruhamah, Gods mercy: We were not his people, but now Ammi again, God hath promised to make us to be his people; we were rejected from mercy, but mercy is come again, now Ruhamah, O the mercy of God, O that free grace of our God, that we that have been: so vile, so provoked the eyes of his glory, we that have so sinned against mercy it self, yet mercy should thus follow us, to make us his people, and to save us from his wrath!1 It is a good thing to speak of the loving kindness of our God. Psal. 92. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to be telling of the goodness of God in the morning, and his faithfulness every night. That Psalm is appointed for the Sabbath. It is a work of the Sabbath to be speaking one to another of the goodness of God: Especially in this case, when a people were afraid that they should have been for ever rejected, ⟨p. 145⟩that now God should call them again,2 Ammi, my people, and say now again that he will have mercy upon them. Psal. 145. 4. 5. One generation shall praise thy name to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts; I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
In the latter end of the former, God was in a way of promising mercy to his people, that those that were not his people should be his people, and those that had not received mercy should receive mercy. Now he calleth upon all whose hearts were with God, to speake to one another of this great favour of God to his people, fo• their mutuall encouragement, and for the praise of his Name. As if he should say, Well, you have been under dreadfull threats of God, your sins have called for dreadfull things; but my grace is free, and it is rich & powerfull, therefore you that were not my people, and have deserved to be for ever cast off from being my people, you that had not obtained mercy shall obtaine mercy; Say to your brethren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ruhamah, that is, O you that are godly, speak one to another, and tel• one another, for the quickning of one anothers hearts; of this great favour of God of his free grace, Oh say, Ammi, Ammi, the people of God, Ruhamah, Gods mercy: We were not his people, but now Ammi again, God hath promised to make us to be his people; we were rejected from mercy, but mercy is come again, now Ruhamah, O the mercy of God, O that free grace of our God, that wee that have beene: so vile, so provoked the eyes of his glory, we that have so sinned against mercy it self, yet mercy should thus follow us, to make us his people, and to save us from his wrath!1 It is a good thing to speake of the loving kindnesse of our God. Psal. 92. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to be telling of the goodnesse of God in the morning, and his faithfulnesse every night. That Psalme is appointed for the Sabbath. It is a work of the Sabbath to be speaking one to another of the goodnesse of God: Especially in this case, when a people were afraid that they should have been for ever rejected, ⟨p. 145⟩that now God should call them againe,2 Ammi, my people, and say now againe that he will have mercy upon them. Psal. 145. 4. 5. One generation shall praiss thy name to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts; I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
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